Came expecting to hate. But hes right. 100 percentn

Where does he teach? I want to come learn.

This is how Judo, Aikido and many close-quarter Oriental martials work; use your center of mass and manipulate the opponent's extremities but this demonstration is just that much clearer.

That's one thing the Tai Chi form is good for. In a proper Tai Chi form you don't directly move your arms.The arms only moves because of weight shift or waist turn

Great video 👌.I am a new fan.Subscribing .

grapping is for when you're trying not to hurt the guy and it's MUCH safer for you hit him FIRST, then in his weakened state it's much safer for you to play Nurse Nightingale to the a-hole. Front or side snapkick to the shin/knee, stop or oblque kick to same, then punch to kidney or floating ribs, THEN concen yourself with just twising him up and controling him, if you want to do so. At that point, you CAN just flee and you probably should do so, too. He probably has friends, might have weapons. grappling tends to end up on the ground, with the odds in favor of the heavier, stronger man or his friends. with the very serious risk of a knife getting pulled wihtout your seeing it and then you get slashed/stabbed

Consumerist culture cares more about what you can buy than what you can do, so we care more about the pretense of competence than the substance of it.

I feel a bit sorry for your partner.

i always wander why jointlocks are not used more in bjj (i hear ppl sometimes use wristlocks now but cannnot confirm it) there's some judo ppl at work and i was theory crafting on how i would fight them and staning locks/breaks i think could work (i'm heavyer and stronger only limmited judo experience)

Isn't attacking with an open, relaxed palm just asking for a contusion to happen? If this is met with a block, or hits any hard part of the opponent's body, there is a lot that could go very wrong for you...

This will work really well if your aggressor puts his arm out limply for you to grab.

I’ve added many of your principles into my daily routine. However, I always guard my jawline with a hand or at least shoulders up. How to you see guarding while striking?

This lesson is an absolute gem - in South East Asia there is less of closed fist and more of open handed strikes (don't know whether cultural or whatever). The whip-like motion of slap needs to be learnt and the raising of the elbow was a true beacon of light 😄

I love your tust in the human body!

Good tip

That always drives me crazy. The other problem is that the more you reach forward, the less power your punch has, too! People are so weird because they always act like their hands are light sabers (just touching you is doing damage) - its sooo wrong, but a difficult mindset to break in people.

Excellent advice 🙂

Genuinely good advice. Reminds me of a quote, "Being a good martial artist means realising that you don't punch with your hands and don't kick with your legs", basically meaning that what the rest of the body does is more important than just the point of impact like the hand or leg

This is so dumb 🤦🏻

Best MA channel on YT....Many Thanks

Reminds me of watching videos on the Systema martial art.

can this be applied to any martial art?

Aikido/Aikikai...

Wow. You demonstrate such wicked power in this video. The combination of your knowledge and your physical control over your body is great. I wish the big names in martial arts KZbin would hurry up and discover you so they can spread the word.

Thanks!

Your training partner is quite stoic about all these strikes.

i have a back injury and i can only punch with my arms right now not with my body so i know what you mean

Love this! Natrual progression for once you understand blocking.

I think you did a good job here. Two things I would like to add which can help are: (1) Situational awareness and making good use of your peripheral vision. The sooner you know something is up the quicker you can respond to it. (2) I recommend playing regular handball with the small hard ball on a four walled court with a ceiling. When you get good at playing this you need to move rapidly around and hit a fast moving small hard object with a hard controlled hit. So this helps with the practice of moving around fast, strengthens your hands, and helps with hand eye coordination for performing fast hard controlled strikes not just at a person's body, but their hands and feet, because punches and kicks do not move as fast as a handball does, so if you can smack a handball you can smack an incoming punch.

Is this an adaptation of systema?

thank you this is so smart

Good moves ! Perhaps some suggestions on stance and foot work. To avoid weak balance?

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Incredible. Thank you for the video's

So true brother! Respect!

Thats a really interesting description. I struggle to explain to people the idea of a punch or palm that "looks" like it's traveling straight, but is actually the tightest arc they can produce.

Interesting, you're kind of whipping your opponent.

You're showing to us why martial arts are, before anything, called ARTS . Thanks!

Open you hip by turning you base leg out that opens up your hip for a wider range of motion and power, make sure your standing leg is bent that will make you more balanced also either swing the arm on the kicking leg side down to help counter balance. There way better advice than the 💩 you said in this video.

I like this video very informative. thanks!

oh yeah for me it's all about the sholder dexterity

What if (wrist band) your hand/fingers aren't large enough to reach all the way around your opponent's wrist?

It seems like I can hear his bones cracking

Very informative...reminds me of the classic muscle control exercises.

I think that we do a disservice when we say its not about using muscle (with the ezception of talking about tendon power). The nuance is that we're using a chain of individual muscles that all need to be recruited and coordinated as a drive train. Moving your hips is a result of muscles just as much as extending our arm and closing your fist. We also need to know which muscles to use and which ones to not use for any given movement.

Thanks for doing these great videos. Those leg moves you are performing reminded me of some of the same moves in Mui Thai. Balance is key for sure. Efficiency is even better. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

Two finger locks are much more effective than one or 3-4. Locks require three things: a teeter totter. A teeter totter has three things: a lever, a fulcrum and a base. 95% locks lose effectiveness when missing one of those. #3 will be lost against a stronger person with the your hand on his shoulder. Put it in the elbow and keep it close to your body. #1 can be made 20X more effective and efficient (and they cannot escape just by kneeling) by keeping their arm in our armpit and you droop into 1) a horse stance or 2) just go down on your opposite knee, and touch your elbow of the locking arm to your knee. They have a very difficult time escaping at any point and you can dislocate.break their elbow depending on the speed of your mass drop.

I appreciate you putting these videos out on this figure 8 and mass-based power. I would really like to see you share some of the exercises you give your students to develop their bodily awareness. When I was younger, I had zero athletic or sport training, so a shocking amount of my muscles were totally dormant. I had no idea how to even activate them. Lots of different exercises helped me to eventually figure out how to flex them, and from there to strengthen them and turn them into my power train. If you had a student who was physically uncoordinated and didn't know how to get their hip rotation to move, or had really poor mobility, how would you get them started?

Precious technique right here... I've just impressed myself thanks to you!

I’ve been practicing the figure 8 hips, etc., but keep my shoulders rolled up while striking to protect my jawline. It feels odd to have my head & neck exposed.